OVER HERE - Experimental 53 seconds
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A hybrid pixelated figure signals in a landscape of saturated repetition - Distorted sound layered with broken transmission appeals for help, create an almost painful sensory overload. The viewer is locked in the subjects endless loop of failure and futility.
The Pentland Experiment is an on-going project which depicts an alternative reality on the outskirts of Edinburgh. Using electronic techniques, which converge the digital and physical, Harman creates abstracted motifs within sparse landscapes. Figures and structures are deliberately burred from the viewer in these highly staged algorithmic compositions. Within the corruption of the digital, there is a break up of information, which leaves the viewer flickering between abstraction and figuration